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janet huntington: Reasons animal shelters aren’t called garbage cans, hospice, orphanages or homeless shelters. Most people won’t value something they get by picking it up from a trash can. Animal shelters aren’t paid...

Lyn: Sounds like SOMEONE’S warming up for spending the “holidays” with extended family, haha! On a more serious note, I think that breeding brachycephalics is cruel and unethical, but my daughter’s 4H Youth Dog...

Anton: Ha ha this made me laugh, very true. For myself I made one brief foray into the politics and religion of dog breeding and shows to be put off for life. This wasn’t my fault I just thought I wanted a dog. I honestly...

Jen Robinson: You say it’s not considered polite to talk about religion and politics. Maybe I read too many dog forums and blog comments . . . I sure see a lot of dog people who aren’t polite, and I wish some of them would...

Christopher: > This is a very biased article to attempt to get people to believe that breeding for NBT is heinous This is actually a pretty straight forward article supported by facts that doesn’t whitewash NBT because ignorant...

Sueaussie: This is a very biased article to attempt to get people to believe that breeding for NBT is heinous. However, you fail to mention that out if the hundreds of corgis bred over and over and if the many breeds and thousands if...

Christopher: If Jan DeMello does not breed “barbie collies” how come Hob Nob dogs were deregistered and banned from the ABCA for being barbie collies?

Anon: Sandi Anderson’s Harley is not what I would consider a “Barbie Collie” a predominant working background. Just because a dog earns a show CH title, it does not make them a Barbie Collie. And just because a barbie...

Kathy: Dear Ernest maybe this will help you find another Collie by choice of breeder that does not support merle to merle breeding because I see a connection continuing studies reveal in my opinion as far as I have studied: That I can...

Kathy: Beth: Blind collies were first discovered in a litter from an imported pregnant female in 1933. Two puppies in a litter of 14 were blind. These collie puppies were kept in cold storage at Cornell from my studies. It is documented...

Kathy: Entering my point of view Chris. I see this as a Big Business Political movement’s philosophically as Totalitarianism. A concept that has made a strong comeback in American Government. It began in my opinion as a gradual...